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Haha, oh man. The Gameboy was pretty confined in its technology, but its biggest flaw was the lack of backlighting. You couldn't play the damn thing in the dark, outside in natural light, or basically anywhere other than directly under a lamp. I remember my parents bought a ridiculous and unwieldy little "kit" that I attached to my Gameboy to give it light, increased sound, and a little magnifying glass to see the screen better. If you could get around that, the games were actually highly enjoyable. I got loads of entertainment from the Mario games released on OG Gameboy.

I still have my original gameboy, I have the green one. I loved playing it the only thing I didn't like is now fast the batteries died and how you need four batteries. I turned mine on a couple years ago to see if it still works and it did. I was really surprised that it still worked.

[bragging] I think it's the good time to remind everyone that I have a signed copy of a Tetris cartridge. By Alexey Pajitnov. That I met. And who, by the way, spent 30 minutes telling me about how the Burning Man Festival was great. Which makes him even greater.[/bragging]

Haha, oh man. The Gameboy was pretty confined in its technology, but its biggest flaw was the lack of backlighting. You couldn't play the damn thing in the dark, outside in natural light, or basically anywhere other than directly under a lamp. I remember my parents bought a ridiculous and unwieldy little "kit" that I attached to my Gameboy to give it light, increased sound, and a little magnifying glass to see the screen better. If you could get around that, the games were actually highly enjoyable. I got loads of entertainment from the Mario games released on OG Gameboy.

Well, it didn't have a backlight because not having one gave it amazing battery life, and that was the biggest reason Gameboy defeated Game Gear so handily. Game Gear had a backlight, but its battery life was like half that of Gameboy's, and I remember Gameboy's battery life being a huge selling point.

I totally had this for my Gameboy:

It was a bit ridiculous, because though it worked well, it used an additional 4 batteries just to run a light... haha.